Silver City, South Dakota

Place in South Dakota, United States

Silver City, South Dakota

Elkhorn Prairie

Place

Silver City, 1948. Photo by George A. Grant.

Silver City

Location of Silver City in South Dakota.

Coordinates: 44°05′03″N 103°33′49″W﻿ / ﻿44.08417°N 103.56361°W﻿ / 44.08417; -103.56361
Country| United States
State| South Dakota
County| Pennington
Elevation

| 4,626 ft (1,410 m)
Time zone| UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)| UTC-6 (MDT)
Area code| 605
GNIS feature ID| 5769045

Silver City is an unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States, outside Rapid City. It lies at the head of Pactola Lake on Rapid Creek, and is about 5 miles west of U.S. Route 385 via a paved county road.[1] It is not tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau.

## History

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The area was first referenced by General George A. Custer who entered the Hills in 1874 and referred to the area as Elkhorn Prairie. The first settlement at Silver City was made in 1876.[2] Silver City was a mining town for many years.[1] It was located on the Black Hills and Western Railroad until its abandonment a few years before the construction of Pactola Dam.

Today, the town is a resort area with a campground and cabins for rental. There is also a church.[3] Additional USFS campgrounds are located nearby, and there is a walk-in trout fishing area along Rapid Creek to the west of the town. Silver City has a volunteer fire department, and a small community center in the old schoolhouse, but is now part of the Hill City School District. The community of about 80 homes is becoming a bedroom community for Rapid City. The town is also the start of a Volksmarch that goes around Pactola Lake.[4]

## Notes

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1. ^ a b "Silver City - South Dakota Ghost Town". Retrieved February 11, 2007.
2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 60.
3. ^ Wolle, Muriel Sibell (1966) [1953]. The Bonanza Trail: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the West (5th ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 446–447.
4. ^ "Silver City". Retrieved February 11, 2007.

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Municipalities and communities of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States

County seat: Rapid City

Cities|

* Box Elder‡
* Hill City
* New Underwood
* Rapid City

Towns|

* Keystone
* Quinn
* Wall
* Wasta

CDPs|

* Ashland Heights
* Caputa
* Colonial Pine Hills
* Green Valley
* Johnson Siding
* Rapid Valley

Former CDP|

* Ellsworth AFB‡

Other
communities|

* Ajax
* Creston
* Deerfield
* Farmingdale
* Hisega
* Imlay
* Mystic
* Owanka
* Rochford
* Rockerville
* Scenic
* Silver City
* Three Forks

Ghost towns|

* Addie Camp
* Conata
* Creighton
* Etta
* Moon
* Myers City
* Pactola
* Pedro
* Redfern
* Sheridan
* Teddy Bear
* Tigerville

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

Attractions|

* Bear Butte
* Bear Country USA
* Black Elk Wilderness
* Black Hills Central Railroad
* Black Hills National Forest
* Black Elk Peak
* Black Hills Playhouse
* Chapel in the Hills
* Crazy Horse Memorial
* Custer State Park
* Devils Tower
* Dinosaur Park
* Flintstones Bedrock City
* Gordon Stockade
* Homestake Mine
* Jewel Cave National Monument
* The Mammoth Site
* Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
* Mount Rushmore
* Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument
* Mystic Miner Ski Resort
* Needles
* Pactola Lake
* Reptile Gardens
* Rushmore Cave
* Sheridan Lake
* Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns
* Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
* Sylvan Lake
* Terry Peak ski area
* Wind Cave National Park with bison herd

Scenic routes|

| Roads|

* Norbeck Scenic Byway
* Iron Mountain Road
* Needles Highway
* Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway

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Trails|

* Black Hills Centennial Trail
* George S. Mickelson Trail

Populated
places|

| Cities|

* Belle Fourche
* Central City
* Custer
* Deadwood
* Edgemont
* Hot Springs
* Hill City
* Lead
* Newcastle
* Rapid City
* Spearfish
* Sturgis
* Whitewood

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Towns|

* Buffalo Gap
* Fairburn
* Hermosa
* Keystone
* Pringle
* Sundance

Unincorporated|

* Dewey
* Four Mile
* Galena
* Hanna
* Johnson Siding
* Nemo
* Rochford
* Rockerville
* Silver City
* Three Forks

History
and people|

| Native American|

* Cheyenne
* Lakota people
* Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux Reservation
* Black Hills War, or Great Sioux War (1876)
* Black Elk
* Sitting Bull
* Crazy Horse
* Lone Horn
* Red Cloud
* Spotted Tail

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Old West|

* Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
* Black Hills Expedition (1874)
* Black Hills gold rush (1874)
* Newton–Jenney Party (1875)
* Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route (1876–1887)
* Sidney-Black Hills Stage Road (1876–1887)
* Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (1893–1947)
* Seth Bullock and Martha Bullock
* General George Armstrong Custer
* Dora DuFran
* Wild Bill Hickok
* Calamity Jane
* Historian Doane Robinson
* Sol Star
* Al Swearengen
* Charlie Utter

Ghost towns|

* Addie Camp
* Bismuth
* Blacktail
* Burdock
* Cambria
* Carbonate
* Etta
* Flatiron
* Greenwood
* Maitland
* Myers City
* Mystic
* Nahant
* Novak
* Pactola
* Sheridan
* Spokane
* Terraville
* Tigerville
* Tinton
* Trojan

Modern|

* Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922–1957)
* Stratobowl (1934–1959)
* Black Hills flood (1972)
* 2000 Jasper Fire
* Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum
* Author Joseph Bottum
* Politician Francis Case
* Poet Charles Badger Clark
* Historian Watson Parker

Transit|

* Rapid City Rapid Ride
* Jefferson Lines

Road junctions|

* Cheyenne Crossing
* Four Corners
* Four Mile
* Keystone Wye
* Maverick Junction
* Mule Creek Junction

Related|

* Mount Rushmore in popular culture

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Israel

Other|

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